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Overview

A message of unconditional love through the seasons is wrapped in a warm and exuberant board book--perfect for baby showers, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, and love all year round!

I love you strong, I love you small,Together, we have it all.I love you wild, I love you loud,I shout it out and I feel proud.

When you love someone, you want the whole world to know. Through good times and bad, rain or shine, love is unconditional. Share this beautiful board book for story time, bedtime, or anytime--with someone you love!

Product Details

About the Author

Smriti Prasadam-Halls is a former children's books editor who has written several picture books and novelty books, including the #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling picture book I Love You Night and Day. She lives in England with her husband and three sons.www.smriti.co.uk

Alison Brown studied Fine Art at Liverpool and then became a graphic designer. She is the illustrator of The Wall Street Journal and Publisher's Weekly bestselling I Love You Night and Day, I'll Never Let You Go, Snowy Bear, I'll Love You Always, and Little Owl's Egg. Alison lives in the United Kingdom.

Editorial Reviews

04/28/2014Inspired by a biblical passage, Ephesians, 3:17–19, this (fully secular) story uses a panoply of adjectives to evoke the expansive love between a small blue bunny and a larger, rounded purple bear: “I love you far, I love you wide,/ From over here... to the other side.” Brown’s (Eddie and Dog) soft mixed-media illustrations use a predominantly cool palette, showcasing the dark blues of underwater and nighttime scenes or the azure sky of a sunny day. Though the animals’ facial features are minimal (pinpoints for eyes, loose squiggles for mouths), their mutual affection comes through. Prasadam-Halls’s rhymed couplets have a pleasing lilt, though verge on precious and simplistic: the lines “I love you strong, I love you small./ Together we have it all” accompany a picture of the bunny struggling to hold a snowman’s body in place while the bear places its head on top. The gender-neutral, cross-species portrait of affection gives the book the potential for broad appeal—the animals’ relationship could easily be between a single or adoptive parent and his or her child, or also between two close friends. Ages 3–6. (June)

Publishers Weekly

2014-03-17This new entry in the "I love you SO VERY MUCH" genre offers grandiose rhyme paired to images of a small blue bunny and a slightly larger purple bear. Broadening the potential audience if nothing else, the two figures are both androgynous and cast in an ambiguous relationship. Whether sibs, parent and child (perhaps adoptive), bosom buddies or outright lovers, in Brown's spacious, idyllic pastel paintings, they pose together in a variety of seasons and settings, sometimes holding paws, more often sharing smiles and glances. Whether soaring in a hot air balloon, climbing a mountain or snuggling together with a book in bed, the sentiment never varies—even during a temporary ruction caused by broken crockery. The verse, spread out to a line or a couplet per spread, is as oblique as the relationship: "I love you most, I love you best, / Much, much more than all the rest. // I love you tall, I love you high, / Way up in the sunny sky." Unsurprisingly, it's even unclear which of the two is delivering the declarations. A generic addition to a thoroughly overcrowded bandwagon. (Picture book. 5-8, adult)

Kirkus Reviews

“Prasadam-Halls's rhymed couplets have a pleasing lilt . . . The gender-neutral, cross-species portrait of affection gives the book the potential for broad appeal--the animals' relationship could easily be between a single or adoptive parent and his or her child, or also between two close friends.” Publishers Weekly

“Brown's soft, full-spread artwork nicely matches Prasadam-Halls's brief rhyming verse . . . This gentle, reassuring story is a calming tale just right for family or group sharing.” School Library Journal

From the Publisher

06/01/2014PreS-Gr 2—In this warm tale, inspired by Ephesians 3: 17–19, two cuddly animals interact with one another, demonstrating their love. They will always love each other, be it day or night, if the fun is past or yet to come, or should one be right and the other be wrong. Based on their depictions in the artwork, one animal is clearly a small aqua rabbit, while the other appears to be a stocky lavender bear. Brown's soft, full-spread artwork nicely matches Prasadam-Halls's brief rhyming verse. The opening spread begins with a sunrise and the friends walking along a forest path. Subsequent scenes follow the two companions sharing a variety of activities that take them through the seasons. They ride in a hot-air balloon, scuba dive, build a snowman, play in the rain, and read a bedtime story. The cheerful artwork confirms the loving bond between them. This gentle, reassuring story is a calming tale just right for family or group sharing.—Lynn Vanca, Freelance Librarian, Akron, OH

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